Before we start we have to ensure that our systems are ready for dealing with the Moby world. So here is a list of pre-requirements which have to be installed.

We assume that you have basic understandings in installing these tools and wont go into detail about that. Please have a look at the publicly available documentation of each of the tools.

The tutorial is not bound to a specific operation system, so you are free to use your favorite one. In the tutorial we will demonstrate how to set up the Moby system with the Apache Httpd and Tomcat, but you are free to choose any other tools.

• Java (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp)
  

• Download the current java version from the URL above. For the work with BioMoby the Java SE is sufficient
  
• Install Java and set the JAVA_HOME variable to your installation and also make sure the bin directory of the installation is added to the PATH variable
• Please make sure you are installing the JDK and not the JRE !
  
• Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/)
• Download the current version (at least Apache 2.0)
• Install it and test it if its running correctly
  
• Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi)
• We suggest to use Tomcat5.5
• Download Tomcat, install it and test if its running correctly
  
• Axis (http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/axis/1_4)
• Dont use Axis2. The current BioMoby implementation does not work with Axis2. So please download version 1.4 (the binaries) I!
• If you untared/unzipped the file, go into the axis-1_4/webapps directory and copy the axis directory into the webapps directory of your tomcat
• Download the jars from http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/downloads/index.html and from http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/downloads.html and copy them into TOMCAT/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib.
• Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/)
• We use and highly recommend Eclipse as developer IDE. You can either download the IDE for Java Delevopers or the IDE for Java EE Developer.
• Install it anywhere you want
• Maven Plugin for Eclipse

• http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/ - install it in eclipse. if you are not familiar how to install plugins in Eclipse - they provide also a flash movie which describes how. To enable this plugin-in you will need Buckminster ( http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster ) and Subversion ( http://subclipse.tigris.org )
  

• mod_jk
  
• If you want to have a redirection from the apache to tomcat (because of security issues only the apache is visible from the outside, but the Web Services will be in tomcat) you need to download the mod_jk.so (http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/binaries/). A short introduction how to install it can be found here: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/generic_howto/quick.html